“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
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“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
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I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
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“Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.”
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and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.”
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“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Selected Poems
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Selected Poems
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